"So... We're not in trouble for breaking protocol?"

Daisy and Caleb stood shoulder to shoulder, water dripping off their sodden bodies. They looked half drowned with a large puddle accumulating under their feet. How the two had become like this, Coulson wasn't exactly sure, only that it involved flooding the containment room and a Daisy made quake.

They were lucky Lincoln and Joey had been there to open the sealed doors before the water reached the ceiling. Otherwise they would be more than just half drowned. The two other male inhumans had gone back to their bunks to change into some dry clothes.

"No. I was actually planning to clear Caleb this afternoon, but you beat me to it. As for the flooding, I expect a full explanation."

The two inhumans smiled sheepishly at each other. Probably trying to configure some story that would let them get away. Though from the look of the female, they weren't thinking of anything that he might accept as the truth.

"There was an accident." She settled, looking down at his feet. "I broke the sink in the containment room."

Caleb's head darted up faster than Coulson had suspected it would. He knew Daisy had a stronger grip on her powers than to accidentally break something, shake it maybe, but not break.

"I'll accept my pun-"

"That's not true." The teen interrupted, looking back at the director. "I was the one who broke it. Daisy was only trying to break open the doors after they sealed. I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention to my hands."

He bowed his head as he continued, not daring to meet either adult's gaze. "If anyone should be punished, it should be me."

"No, it should be me. You're my responsibility." Daisy argued, turning to look at the scaly inhuman.

"But I was the one that sliced the sink to ribbons, you were only trying to prevent us from drowning."

"I don't care, you're my charge, it's my job to make sure you stay out of trouble and accept the penalties if I fail."

Coulson smirked softly as the two bickered like siblings. Though he'd expect siblings to be claiming the other did it, not trying to protect each other from punishment. "Since it was an accident, there shouldn't be any need for punishment, just a warning to be more careful, and perhaps next time, Skye, you could hit the call button instead of shaking the base's foundation."

The girl pouted her lips, mumbling something under her breath.

"What?"

"It's Daisy, sir." Caleb replied for her, he knew from Bobbi that the female inhuman had changed her name after learning her birth name.

"Oh.. Right.. Still can't seem to get used to that." He chuckled, fixing the collar of he shirt. She noted how he still had yet to replace his robotic hand.

"Are we dismissed then, D.C.?" She asked, looking back up at his face.

"Sure, we'll need some time to replace the sink and anything that could have been ruined by the water. So we might have to set up a bunk for Caleb sooner than later." The director said, a look of regret crossing his face, he probably hadn't planned on making a bunk for the young inhuman any time soon.

"I got that covered!" Daisy smiled, linking arms with Caleb. "The room next to Fitz's is still free!"

They were off before Coulson could say anything else. He was still a little weary about taking the younger inhuman out of containment, since what had changed on the surface paled in comparison to the changes inside. And they still had no idea what his gift was. Unless the terrigenesis had only physically changed him.

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She should be asleep.. Her morning sparring with May was in a few hours. She should rest. Yet her mind couldn't seem to shut itself down. There was just too much running through her head.

He was alive out there, somewhere. Even if a dark inhuman was controlling his body. Which meant the Ward she knew was buried beneath the monster and alien. Her chances of bringing him back seemed to dwindle every time she thought of him.

'I'm not a good man, Skye.'

But she didn't mind, he could be the greatest serial killer of all time for all she cared, she still would have loved him. Her heart was foolish and stubborn like that. It didn't matter that he didn't feel the same, or that he had done far worse than she wanted to imagine, her heart would still skip a beat when she thought of his voice.

'Skye...'

The way he used to say her name, drawn out in that hushed tone, almost husky, accompanied by the way he had looked at her. It was enough to make the ex-hacktivist shake the objects in her room. She only prayed her powers did not extend past the walls of her bunk, or she'd have a group of concerned S.H.I.E.L.D agents knocking on her door.

Which she most certainly didn't need. She just wanted to curl up in her bed and sleep a hundred years, yet every time she closed her eyes she saw his face. Not the one she wanted to see, but the one the inhuman had made Ward make. The dark gaze, baring into her, a small desire hidden underneath. A desire for power, a need for control. They were not Ward's emotions, but the alien's. That look of hatred sent her way was not his, even if it was shown through his body.

She hoped the next time they met, Ward would be in control of his own expression and show her with his eyes, if not his voice, how he felt about her. If he still felt anything close to how he had at Providence. How she wished she was back there, Garret's Hydra just emerging from the shadows and the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D, that felt like a breath of fresh air to what she'd gone through in last year alone.

Daisy rolled over in her bed, hoping to clear her mind by staring at her hula dancer. With the vent placed where it was in her room, she was gently swaying.

'She shakes. But you're not doing anything.'

Thank god for people like Fitz. He could make any situation better.

'You're just different now, and there's nothing wrong with that.'

Even the worst of situations, he'd gone as far as to protect her from Simmons. When everything had been going to hell. He'd made her feel like she wasn't a ticking time bomb. That they could still be friends, even if everything had changed.

'Just like old times, huh?'

'Not exactly'

Damn, why couldn't she just stop thinking about him? He was part of the reason that had all happened. If he hadn't taken her to that church with Raina, she may have never ended up in that temple. She could have gone on with her somewhat normal life. But Trip had, who was to say she wouldn't have been down there with him?

'I'm no clairvoyant, but I do believe some things are meant to be.'

Maybe it had been destiny, like Raina had said, that there was no avoiding it, one way or another she would have ended up the walking earthquake she was now. Sooner or later. Yet he had been a part of everything that had made her who she was.

Ward had been there with Coulson to pull her out of her van. He'd become her S.O. It was because of him that she had trained so hard under May. He had brought her to her father, and put her to where she would end up changing with Raina in the Kree temple. That had lead to her eventually meeting her mother. He'd been helping Coulson when they went to save Lincoln.

Then he kind of fell off her life radar, though he had kidnapped and torture Bobbi. She hadn't seen him again until when they had found Caleb. Just what did that dark inhuman have planned. Was he trying to form his inhuman army? Was that why he had come to that alley? To take Caleb?

Then why had he only been looking at her?

"Skye..?"

She grimaced, leaning more into her pillow. "It's Dai-" That wasn't Coulson's voice.. She looked out of the corner of her eye, afraid to move now. "-sy.."

There he was, in all his dark and evil hydra glory. Yet this time he wasn't looking at her with hatred, no, this was an expression she had seen on Ward so many times. A look he only made for her, when he knew no one else would see.

They both stayed where they were, Daisy holding her breath, what now? He was here, what was he doing here? How had he even gotten in. Then again, it was Ward, or was it. She wasn't sure anymore. She knew his heart still beat in his chest, but the alien was in control of his mind.

Why did it have to be so confusing, why couldn't he just be one or the other, why did he have to be Ward and the Inhuman. Why had he even come back? He should know how stupid it was to sneak into the base. For all he knew she was going to shoot him again.

'I hope you'll come back.'

She hadn't said it, but she had been thinking it. Though she was hoping he would wait till she found a way to remove that parasite without killing him. Not just appear at her bedside in the middle of the night.

"Daisy..?" Somehow him saying her new name made it even harder to concentrate, She prayed to whoever was listening that she didn't reduce the base to rubble. Her hula dancer was already shaking more than the vent usually made her. "Is that what your parents called you?"

Why did it feel like he was actually curious, and not just asking. "Yes..." She slowly turned over to meet his gaze, surprised at how similar they were to Caleb's. Though still brown as ever, there was almost a honey glow to them.

If possible his smile was more unnerving than his presence in her room. His eyes raked over her in one smooth motion, coming back up to bare into hers. The action made her pull her blanket up over her over sized t-shirt, feeling more exposed than she thought she had been.

"You cut your hair? It looks good."

Daisy chewed the inside of her cheek, hoping someone would come to save her from this situation, yet at the same time hoping she could keep her powers inside her room. If they found him here they would lock him inside a box and burn both him and the inhuman. She couldn't let that happen, not yet.

"Did you just come for small talk? Cause if that's.." She broke off when he stepped closer, looming over her. She wasn't sure she wanted to know the reason of his visit. She actually preferred the small talk to whatever he was about to say or do.

"I came here for you."

'You too Skye, I have a promise to keep.'

"And every other inhuman we have on base." She hoped that falter in her voice was her imagination. She was calling to mind May's training, but it wasn't working, she didn't even want to know what her heart rate was at the moment. She could not only see, but hear the things around her beginning to rattle. This wasn't good.

"Daisy, relax. I will never hurt you." He had that look in his eyes again, the one he'd made when he realized he'd lost her. When she'd called him a serial killer on the bus, while she was handcuffed to the stairs. He'd moved closer, just as she'd moved back, into a sitting position.

"Says the creature that killed Will and tried to kill Jemma and Fitz." She scowled, not liking how close he'd gotten. Mainly because she knew it was wrong to want his arms around her.

"That was all him, that wasn't me."

'I will never lie to you'

"You're one in the same." She said it through clenched teeth, having enough trouble keeping her voice level. "You've both done horrible things."

"He's done far worse." Daisy wasn't sure whether this was actually Ward talking, or if it was the inhuman trying to convince her it was. Though she didn't see why, it was supposed to have some great power that could control all the rest. Unless it just seemed that way, maybe it could only control the weak or those willing. Like any inhuman would be willing.

When she remained silent, he inched closer, his pant leg pressing against her mattress. He was so close, too close. The icer in her nightstand was closer to him than it was her. She had no hopes of reaching it before he attacked. Why wasn't he attacking already?

"Skye- I mean, Daisy." He started, putting on knee down on the bed. "Please, calm down. I promise I won't hurt you."

'I'm keeping my promise.'

He must know that her teammates would come if objects around the base started shaking, and from the way everything in her room was, she was sure the only reason they weren't knocking on her door was because it was so late and she probably hadn't woken anyone yet. He didn't want to be found, just as she didn't want them to find him.

She needed to get him out, before anyone noticed. "If I had my gun." She threatened hoping to send him off and perhaps stop his advances onto her bed.

"You should know from Fitz that bullets wont top it from controlling my body." For a brief moment, something more sinister shown through his dark eyes. It almost mirrored the way he had looked at her in the alley. Yet somehow, she knew, this time it wasn't meant for her. Perhaps the inhuman held a hate for Fitz, who had almost stopped him from exiting the portal.

"It would stall you long enough for my team to come."

"We both know you don't want them to find me. Otherwise you would have shook the very foundation." Daisy froze, everything around them stilled, his hand caressed her cheek, a familiar fondness returning to his eyes.

She opened her mouth to let loose her usual smart ass remark, but found her voice had abandoned her. It felt like all the oxygen had been sucked out of the room. He was right. She didn't want anyone to come in. Not only would it endanger them to be in the same room as Ward, but it would also be putting him at risk.

Whoever entered would no doubt try to capture him so they could burn the parasite and his body to bits. Though the Hydra agent knew none of this. He only knew they would probably attempt to kill him. Neither he nor the inhuman knew that S.H.I.E.L.D was planning to use his weakness to fire against him. And she couldn't tell him, no matter how much she wanted to warn the man inside.

She finally found the will to move her head out of his hand, having been resisting the urge to lean into it. This wasn't fair. He was supposed to be dead.

"So what does the alien want, since 'Ward' apparently still wants me." She made sure to make quotation marks with her hands as she spoke his name. Making sure it knew she wasn't fooled the way Fitz had been. Even if he was a very good actor, she wouldn't believe it would allow him to freely control his body.

"Who is to say we don't want the same thing?" He asked, the dark splash of desire filling his gaze once more, though this time Daisy found herself even more uncomfortable under it. It felt like he was staring into her very soul.

She did her best to scoff, figuring he was only trying to get under her skin. Not that he wasn't already there.

"It's true. I have no reason to lie to you. You already know what I am and for sure what this host has done."

'It's true, and so will be every word I say to you for the rest of my life.'

So it was the parasite talking, even with him alive. Daisy scooted farther back, just as he leaned closer. He needed to learn the meaning of personal space.

"You're a powerful little inhuman.."

He went to trace her cheek again, but she was fast enough to jerk away.. Right over the edge of her bed. Thank god she hadn't knocked anything over and that she hadn't fallen hard enough to wake anyone. Wait, why hadn't she made a thump? She should have, and why wasn't the floor as hard as it had been the last time she fell?

She was afraid to look, her eyes still closed in the fall. She could feel him, his arms, she didn't have to look to know what had broken her fall. She was sure her cheeks were red with embarrassment. His arms were around her. So warm, it made her want to fall asleep.

No! She couldn't fall asleep, not with him still there. She had to get him to leave, before anyone else knew he was there. Before they could kill Ward with the alien.

"Reckless and clumsy, but still powerful."

"Is that all you care about... Power?" She didn't raise her eyes to meet him, she just stared down at his shirt, trying to hide her blush.

"Is there anything as grand?"

"I'm sure Ward would tell you... If he can still communicate, with you at least.." She tried to hide the hopeful tone in her voice, but knew she'd failed by the look in his eyes.

"Foolish, his thoughts are. Thinking feelings of the heart are equal to the power of control and world domination." 'Ward's head tilted down, forcing her chin up to meet his chocolate brown gaze with her own doe eyes. "You, yourself think the same."

'The Tin Man has a heart after all'

If she didn't think he could block it, she would have slapped him, instead she pulled herself free of his hold. Using a little bit of her gift to force him away when he resisted. "Don't compare me to that monster. I am nothing like him."

'You and I aren't that different.'

It was a lie, but she couldn't let this thing know she still harbored any feelings for Ward. It would only use that to it's advantage. The inhuman made Ward's lips curl up in a smirk. It liked to aggravate her, that's all there was to it.

"You're more alike than you may think. The word monster has been used to describe you, has it not?"

She couldn't take it anymore. She had to get away from him, or risk everyone's safety letting her body return to his arms. She had to give him a threat that would make him leave. Without her. Or any of the other inhumans.

"You're leaving. Now." She hissed, going to stand by the door.

"What will you scream If I don't?" There was the playful smirk, she'd only seen Ward make on a few rare occasions. He saved it for when he was feeling high and mighty. Or at least he had saved it for times like those.

"I can do worse." She said, challenge sparking in her eyes. "I can put this base on lock down in a matter of seconds. You'll be stuck in here until we find a way to kill you." No need to tell him they had a way, let him think he's still got them running in circles.

'Ward' got up from where he'd remained on the floor, slowly walking toward her. Much like a hunter stalking it's prey. He didn't stop advancing till she was pressed up against her door, with his arms resting on either side of her face. His lips inches from hers.

"Hmm.. Going only to meet another time or being locked in a room with you till judgment day?" He looked almost thoughtful as he leaned in closer, his lips, grazing her ear. "As enticing as that alternative is... I have other business to attend to."

Daisy let out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding, as he pulled back. Relief flooding her system, she'd been scared to death he'd chose eternity in this room, with her.

Her relief was short lived as he smirked down at her. "We'll see each other again soon, Daisy." He chuckled a little, his nose brushing hers. "I like that better than Skye."

She was hoping he would leave then, but instead found him finally closing the distance. She gasped softly, not meaning to, as she should have expected this. He took full advantage of her small shot. Devouring as much of her as he could through such a kiss.

With his lips moving against hers the way they were, and his tongue exploring her mouth. Daisy's restraint broke within milliseconds, moving her body against his, as her hands found his hair. She wasn't even aware of the fact that she'd sent everything in her room tumbling to the floor, and everything in a five yard radius for that matter.

But he did, he saw everything push back at once, he'd heard the wood frame of her bed split and similar noises coming from the rooms around hers, followed by the groans of their occupants. He pulled away, leaving her breathless and sinking to the floor from the heat of the kiss. That had been even better than the kisses at Providence.

'I'm good. I want this...And you? What do you want?'

'What I want.. is to stay here with you, and imagine the world outside doesn't exist.'

"To be continued."

She wasn't sure whether she should be happy or terrified. Could she really handle him coming back? She hadn't exactly handled this meeting well. She should have signaled Coulson earlier. The chamber wasn't finished yet, they would have had to keep him around a while longer.

With those final words, 'Ward' darted from the premises, leaving her alone on the ground, still grasping for breath.

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There you have it! Some Daisy/SkyeWard action! Consider it my Christmas gift to all of you.

I hope everyone enjoyed, and that everyone had a wonderful Christmas, or just wonderful day if you don't celebrate it.

Anyway, I'll try to upload again soon, but tell me what you think, I'd love to here your thoughts, and what you think of this Inhuman controlled Ward, I'm trying to make it sound as much like the character would as possible, but seeing as we've only witnessed 'It' pretending to be Will, it's hard to find the right way to describe him and how he talks. With Ward as his new host body.

But enough of my rambling. I'll write again soon!

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